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by byoung2 1628 days ago
I'm surprised that GCP is claimed to have less than the third of Azure's market share. And AWS is still comfortably in first place.

It is amazing how much the first-mover advantage helped AWS. I signed up for AWS in 2009 after trying GoGrid and Rackspace Cloud and just never looked at any others later on. Just this week I tried GCP and I like it much better. And Azure has a nicer geographical footprint.

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I've also heard a lot of people state that they have trust issues with GCP given Google's history of cancelling consumer facing products.
People actually think Google is going to just close shop on something like this? Has Google ever closed a big service that had real paying customers?
They shut down services with more rapid end dates than AWS. Also they leave many useful services in beta forever and then use that to justify shutting them down.
yep. Amazon is obsessive about customer service, and Google just isn't really.